Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-30
STATE AND TERRITORY.

The Neigh board OF trade Is creased
for business.
Grand Island is threatened with an
other daily paper.
The Falls City cannery will begin OPP
erations this week.
The Exchange hotel IN Ashland Is a
heap of burnt ruins.
Plattsmouth hopes TO wear 4 new depot
IN the sweet by and by.
A $1,000 block will add considerable to
the shape of Columbus this season.
The city council of Grand Island has
declared war on houses of illfamc.
HOldrege has cornered tirebug. He
touched the insurance companies too
often.
The only genuine Indian club in the
state is at Genoa. 1t is knotty peace
maker.
The state institute for the feeble minded
at Beatrice, opened up last week with
fifty unfOrtunates.
Crete will brighten up this season with
the Missouri Pacific extension and an
electric light system.
The season of hickorynut hail is past.
None smaller than goose eggs will receive
paragraphic mention.
Captain Warren, of Wahoo, is laid up
with countless sores and battered bones,
the result of IA runaway.
A gang of burglars made several profit.
less raids on the residents of WahOo last
week and left the town in disgust.
f. Edgchill, of Paramount, was caught
on horseback by lightning flash and
severely, though not fatally, burned.
Robert Spiccr, fourtcen-year Edgar
boy, became attached to runaway
mules halter and was dragged to death.
A Sc, 900 hotel and mammoth foundry
are among the latest additions to David
Citys enterprise. Both are sure things.
Wahoo is ready to give franchise to
any company that will furnish the city
with direct pressure system Of water
works.
A band of forty gypsies are picking up
dollars and clothes-lmes in the neighbor-
hood of Blair by stuiling the superstitious
with "revelations.'
McCook has induced Cincinnati cap
italists to start Il creamery in that city.
The plant will cost $500 and will bo
! completed in thirty working days.
An agent of the Omaha Southern road
has been feeling the pulse of Plattsmouth
on the bonus question. No alarming
| symptoms of llberality are reported.
A mob OF Wahoosiers fell upon a pair
of swindling quack doctors, compelling
tHclH 10 give up MUGS ODtdlncU from
| farmers, and fired them out of town in Il
! shower of boots.
| Grand Island is stitTening with pride as
| its starch factory advances in substantial
and shapely height. 1t will be in running
order by fall and employ 100 hands. Thi,
will materially help the town to polish
Hastings.
The West Point Progress objects to the
makeup methods and opinions of the
BEE in one paragraph. and slices the
next four from the teeming columns oi
this paper The Progress is clipper
from necessity.
The Colorado sanitary board accepted
as a bluff the threat OF tho Nebraska
board to retaliate in kind, and declined
to withdraw the quarantine against Ne
| braska cattle. The state board must now
advance to battle or coral their heifers.
The Grand Island & Wyoming Centra
extension of the b. Il M. has stopped
short at point 1853 miles west of Ra
VIENNA. The construction gang has beer
transferred to Central City, where the
company has staked out another branch
Bill Stein, an impudent tramp, wa!
kicked out of house in Plattsmouth fol
demanding bread or blood. Wher
brought into court an hour afterward h,
produced certificate that one of hi
lungs was affected 1t was evident tn,
hoot made him weary.
The York Republican is no longer ,
temperance organ. The w, q. L. u
ladies have crlmped its pretensons ant
outlawed IT as an organ OF sobriety anc
morals. With the temperance column